[flowerplough]

No names, and no guarantee that I've got every detail of the above exactly, perfectly correct, but I can remember how the #(*$&#*^$(&*!$! Staties added a speeding ticket to my daughter's "Failure to Maintain Control" ticket because of an answer she gave after her last wreck. I have very, very little use for the young, double-chinned, short-haired, campaign-hatted, gray-coated ersatz tax collectors who patrol our nearly-empty, poorly-maintained north-central Pennsylvania roads.

[Tublecane]

“Have heard from Christian radio shows interviewing purported Christian lawyers (oxymoron?) that anyone who ever answers any cops’ question about anything is probably taking an un-necessary risk.”

Only if you’ve committed a crime.

[lovecraft]

Never talk to cops...a good two part series of a shared lecture. Part 1 is from a defense lawyer. Part 2 is from a cop. Good stuff.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE

[Mr. Lucky]

Does this thread have a purpose?

[bgill]

That’s nothing. I got a speeding ticket when had just checked the speedometer because it was in a well known speed trap area. The jerk even admitted he’d clocked me coming down the hill BEFORE the speed limit dropped at the city limit sign and that I was going the CORRECT speed down the hill and that I was going the CORRECT reduced speed when he hit his lights at the city limit sign. So, where the heck was I supposedly @#%(&U@#% speeding???

[Responsibility2nd]

....my daughter's "Failure to Maintain Control" ticket because of an answer she gave after her last wreck.

I'm guessing your daughter admitted the wreck was her fault.

NEVER do that.

Even if it is your fault, admit to nothing. If you must answer, keep them brief and noncommittal.

[Just another Joe]

Never volunteer ANY information to a police officer, other then your name, without your lawyer being present.

[Above My Pay Grade]

I’m not sure I see the problem. Yes, he would have been smarter to keep his mouth shut and ask for a lawyer, but it is not as if the cops did something wrong by arresting him.

He more or less admitted to DUI. Are the cops supposed to just let him go? BTW, I’m guessing his lawyer will claim that he was sober when he wrecked the car, but got drunk after he got home.

[kcvl]

admitted that wrecked car is his, and that he'd been drinking at a bar

And that he could have killed some innocent person while driving drunk!

[lefty-lie-spy]

No guarantees that you grammar isn’t freaking atrocious either.

[Hatteras]

He wasn’t read his rights before answering the officer’s questions. The cop needs a witness placing your friend behind the wheel. Next case...

[taxcontrol]

Obtain a business card of a law firm you can afford. When asked ANY question from the police or LEO, hand him the card, inform the officer that the law firm represents you and if they would submit their questions in writing, your representative will be happy to respond.

[Star Traveler]

See post #29

[lwd]

I’ve got a good one for you...my cousin was sitting on a bench at 2am after last call waiting on a cab to pick him up to go home. The bench was on the corner of the town square and there was no one else around. A couple of cops came up to him and harrassed him saying there were a lot of prostitutes around (which was BS)and asked what he was doing. My cousin was wearing a tuxedo as he had attended a wedding earlier. He of course laughed at them and said they were being idiots. They arrested him for disorderly conduct. “Disorderly” seems to be a catch all for the JBTs.